This photo was taken by one of the participants in Caitlin Wood’s research project, to depict friendship in response to the question What makes you strong?

March 23, 2018 – Thunder Bay, ON

Thunder Bay has a chance to hear from the young people of La Loche Saskatchewan, a community that was changed forever by a tragic shooting in 2016. 

One of the four people who lost their life was Adam Wood, a graduate of Lakehead University who had recently left Thunder Bay to start teaching career in the community. 

In a statement, the Wood family said:

“Rather than looking for someone to blame, or coming up with outsider opinions of reasons why this occurred, we must stop and listen to the voices of La Loche. The leaders and members of the community know what types of support and changes are needed. Our responsibility as a nation is to listen and respond to create lasting systemic change.”

On Wednesday, March 28, Adam’s sister, Caitlin Wood, will present her Master’s research dedicated to giving the youth of La Loche a chance to be heard.

Her project demonstrates how research can be both deeply meaningful and a means to individual and community healing. Caitlin provided young people in the community with cameras to take photographs that reflect the positive influences in their lives, what changes they want to see, and what they feel childhood should look like. 

Consistent with the spirit and methodology of her project, Caitlin has brought along Jazz Moise, a participant in the research and a student from La Loche, as a co-presenter.

This presentation will take place in the School of Nursing, room SN 1015, from 7 to 9:30 pm on Wednesday, March 28. Following the presentation, the floor will be open for a discussion on how to best listen and respond to the voices of Indigenous youth.

This evening is made possible by generous contributions from the Outdoor Recreation Students’ Society, Lakehead University’s Senate Research Council, the School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Tourism, Grassroots Church, Lakehead University’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aboriginal Initiatives, and Roots to Harvest. 

For further information contact: Julie Rosenthal, Assistant Professor, School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Tourism, Lakehead University 807 620-8767 or jrosenth@lakeheadu.ca

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Media: For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media Relations Officer, at (807) 343-8177, or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

Brian Greenspan and Lakehead's Interim President and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Moira McPherson, unveiled the Edward and Brian Greenspan Seminar room on Thursday night in the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law Library at PACI.

March 22, 2018 – Thunder Bay, ON

Lakehead University is proud and honoured to have a seminar room in the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law Library named after the legendary criminal lawyers Brian Greenspan and his late brother, Edward Greenspan, who passed away in 2014.  

The Edward and Brian Greenspan Seminar Room, anonymously funded by a close family friend, is located in the mezzanine of the law library.  Naming this space allows Lakehead to preserve the legacy of two brothers and their contribution to the legal profession. 

The unveiling of the Edward and Brian Greenspan Seminar Room, which immediately followed Brian Greenspan’s compelling lecture called And Justice for All: The Future of the Adversarial System in Canada, was celebrated with a room filled with students from the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, members of the Thunder Bay Law Association, and the general public.

Edward Greenspan, QC was one of Canada's most famous defence lawyers, and a prolific author of legal volumes. His fame was owed to numerous high-profile clients and to his national exposure on the popular Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio series, The Scales of Justice and television series.

Brian Greenspan is a senior partner in the Toronto based firm Greenspan, Humphrey, Weinstein. He is one of the most prominent and well-regarded defence lawyers in Canada, representing some of Canada’s most high-profile criminal cases.

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Media: For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media Relations Officer, at (807) 343-8177, or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

March 21, 2018 – Thunder Bay, ON

In July 2018, Lakehead University Thunder Bay will, once again, offer the innovative Ontario Master Naturalist Program (OMNP).  

Aimed at naturalists and those dedicated to environmental stewardship, the program, which launched in 2015 at Lakehead Orillia, is a partnership with Ontario Nature designed to broaden participants’ knowledge and expertise of the natural world through formal training and guidance.

“There is such a strong, active naturalist community out there that has a great appetite for the type of research and education that this program provides,” explained Bob Bowles, award-winning Orillia-based naturalist and program coordinator. “Many naturalists have taught themselves through their own independent field-work, but we are hoping that this program will also help to provide the foundation from which naturalists, new and old, can expand their studies and research.”

Plants, insects, reptiles, birds, geology, and wetlands are just a few of the topics that participants will delve into during the program. 

Open to the public, the seven-day Thunder Bay session will run from July 15 to 21, and involves seven modules that combine fieldwork and in-class instruction. Participants will receive a certificate after successfully completing the Master Naturalist program. 

Details, including registration information, can be found online at lakeheadu.ca/masternaturalist or by contacting masternaturalist@lakeheadu.ca.

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Media: For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media Relations Officer, at (807) 343-8177 or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

March 15, 2018 – Orillia, ON

Filmmaker and Lakehead University professor Dr. Dalibor Mišina will present a special screening of his documentary, Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words, at the Orillia campus on Monday, March 19as part of Research and Innovation Week.

In Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words, Dr. Mišina, professor of sociology at Lakehead’s Thunder Bay campus, offers an unmediated insight into Leonard Cohen's thoughts on growing up, writing, love, monastic life, the human condition, and 'the third act' – key themes that run through Cohen's work and inform his philosophy of life (and death).   Scheduled to coincide with the 47th anniversary of the release of Cohen’s third album, Songs of Love and Hate, the session will take place at 7 p.m. in room 1033.  There will be a question and answer session immediately following the screening.

Members of the public are invited to attend the events happening at the Orillia campus during Research and Innovation Week, March 19 to 21.  All events take place at 500 University Avenue in Simcoe Hall and are free to the public.  Please visit lakeheadu.ca/ri for more information.

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For the documentary trailer and release notes, please visit: http://misina.ca/lcdoc

Media contact:  Jaclyn Bucik, Marketing & Communications Associate, 705-330-4008 ext. 2014, or jbucik@lakeheadu.ca

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visitwww.lakeheadu.ca.

March 14, 2018 – Orillia, ON

Do photographs of suffering bodies provoke viewers to intervene against abuse and atrocity? What separates humanitarian concern from voyeuristic curiosity?

At the next installment of the In Conservation Speaker Series at the Orillia Public Library, Lakehead University Orillia’s Dr. Valerie Hébert, Associate Professor in the History and Interdisciplinary Studies departments, will discuss the complex ethical dilemmas associated with taking, viewing, publishing and exhibiting photographs of victims of atrocity in “Suffering and Spectatorship: On the Ethical Dilemmas of Viewing Photographs of Atrocity”.

A specialist in transitional justice, Hébert lectures on the history of 20th century Europe, the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and on the connection between photography and human rights discourse. In June 2017, she led an international interdisciplinary research workshop on atrocity photography at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

Hébert’s lecture will take place on Tuesday, March 20 at 2 p.m. at the Orillia Public Library. This session is free and open to the public. Register by email to info@orilliapubliclibrary.ca or by phone at 705-325-2338.

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Media contact:  Jaclyn Bucik, Marketing & Communications Associate, 705-330-4008 ext. 2014, or jbucik@lakeheadu.ca

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

March 9, 2018 – Orillia, ON

Lakehead University celebrates its Research and Innovation (R&I) Week from March 19 to 21 at the Orillia campus with a variety of student and faculty presentations and special events.

Events happening at Lakehead’s University Avenue campus will showcase the exceptional research being undertaken at the university, and will highlight how we make our world a stronger place when we connect our knowledge, curiosity, and our findings. There will be something of interest for all ages.

The official kick-off to the week takes place on Monday, March 19 at 1 p.m. with an environmental sustainability panel in room 2008 hosted by Dr. Sree Kurissery, Lakehead University’s Sustainability Sciences Department Chair and Professor of Biology.

On Monday night at 7 p.m. Dr. Dalibor Misina from the Department of Sociology will be hosting a special screening of his film, Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words in room 1033.  The film offers an unmediated insight into Cohen’s thoughts on growing up, writing, love, monastic life, the human condition, and ‘the third act’.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

Lakehead faculty and local community members will engage in public discussion about poverty, food insecurity, social justice and civic engagement on Tuesday, March 20 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The panel “Poverty and Civic Engagement” will run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in room 2019, and “Understanding Food (In)Security” will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room 1025. The final forum of the day “The Global Food Chain” will feature a screening of the film Banana Split by Lakehead University history professor Dr. Ron Harpelle from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in room 1033.

The evening of Tuesday, March 20 will feature a presentation from Dr. Herman van den Berg, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration, on “Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency hype or new asset class?” from 7 to 9 p.m. in room 1033.

One highlight of week will be the Undergraduate Research Presentation on Wednesday, March 21. Between 10 and 11:30 a.m., visitors will be able to hear presentations by student researchers and view an extensive poster presentation in the Learning Commons.

The week will close with a screening of the documentary, Food Evolution, from 7 to 9 p.m. in room 1022, followed by a facilitated question and answer session with Dr. David Law, Department of Biology and former research biochemist for Monsanto Co., Dr. Victoria Te Brugge, Department of Sustainability Sciences, and Ian Affleck, Vice-President - Plant Biotechnology at CropLife Canada.

Registration is not required unless mentioned above. All events take place at 500 University Avenue in Simcoe Hall and are free and open to the public.  Please visit lakeheadu.ca/ri for more information about all of the events happening this week.

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Media contact:  Jaclyn Bucik, Marketing & Communications Associate, 705-330-4008 ext. 2014, or jbucik@lakeheadu.ca

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

Dr. Pamela Wakewich, centre, was presented with the Distinguished Researcher Award by Dr. Moira McPherson, left, Lakehead’s Interim President and Vice-Chancellor, and Senate Research Committee Chair Dr. Grazia Viola.

March 8, 2018 – Thunder Bay, ON

Lakehead University’s Research and Innovation Awards of Excellence reception was held on Thursday, March 8 to celebrate the exceptional achievements of professors and students.

Dr. Pamela Wakewich was named the 2017 Distinguished Researcher for her work in Sociology and Women’s Studies, and as the Director of Lakehead’s Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research.

“Over the past 30 years my research program and graduate-student mentoring have focused on gender, body and health in rural, northern and Indigenous communities, and innovative methods – such as photovoice and oral history – for community-engaged research,” said Dr. Wakewich, who retired in December 2017.

“The aim of my work is to improve equity and access to high quality health care for the diverse populations that make up our region,” she said.

Drawing on social justice, feminist and critical health studies perspectives, Dr. Wakewich’s research has explored the health effects of violence against women in rural and northern communities, northern women’s and men’s changing experiences of health and embodiment during the course of their lives, barriers and facilitators to health care for seniors in Northwestern Ontario, gaps in reproductive health and maternity care, Indigenous women’s experiences of cervical cancer screening, and women’s wartime work and identities.

“Over my career I enjoyed the opportunity to work with a talented group of interdisciplinary health researchers here at Lakehead, from the social sciences, humanities, education, health studies and the sciences, as we push the boundaries of interdisciplinary health research collaboration in a productive way.”

Dr. Wakewich completed her M.A. at McGill University with a focus on Medical Anthropology and her PhD in Health Sociology at the University of Warwick, U.K.  Prior to joining Lakehead University, she worked as a researcher at the Brief Psychotherapy Centre for Women, Women’s College Hospital, and the Thunder Bay Physical and Sexual Assault Centre, and later as a policy analyst for the Government of Ontario Women’s Directorate.

She is continuing research on two collaborative projects with colleagues from the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research (CRaNHR).

The first explores caregiver and stakeholder perspectives on barriers and facilitators to quality birthing care in Northwestern Ontario. The second is a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care funded engagement project being conducted in conjunction with the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy team to explore interest in the development of a Centre for Excellence for Addictions and Mental Health in Northwestern Ontario.

The Distinguished Researcher Award is the highest honour conferred by Lakehead for research and scholarly activity. 

Dr. Andrew Dean, Lakehead’s Vice-President (Research and Innovation), said the University’s researchers make him proud.

“Congratulations to our Distinguished Researcher, Dr. Wakewich, and to all Lakehead University researchers,” Dr. Dean said. “Whether they are students or professors, everyone in attendance should be proud of their work and this pride should fuel them to even greater accomplishments.”

Award Recipients

Three-Minute Thesis

• People’s Choice Award: Jocelyn Bel, MSc Biology (supervisor, Dr. Kam Leung)
• Second Place: Allyson Paris, MSc, Environmental Engineering (supervisor, Dr. Baoqiang Liao)
• First Place: Robert Jackson, PhD Biotechnology (supervisor, Dr. Ingeborg Zehbe)

Graduate Studies Research Excellence Awards

     Natural Sciences Category

• Dmitry Tarasov, PhD Forest Sciences
• Md Nur Hossain, PhD, Chemistry & Materials Science

      Social Sciences Category

• Kevin Gardam, Master of Public Health
  

Graduate Student Conference Poster Winners

• Winner Engineering Category: Minoo Ataie, MSc Environmental Engineering (supervisor, Dr. Pedram Fatehi)
• Winner NSERC/Science Category: Xuantong Chen, MSc Forestry (supervisor, Dr. Wensheng Qin)
• Winner SSHRC Category: Jennifer White, Master of Social Work (supervisors, Dr. Jodie Murphy, Dr. Lori Chambers, Dr. Kirsten Oinonen)
• Winner CIHR Category: Gabrielle Gaultier, PhD Biotechnology, (supervisor, Dr. Marina Ulanova)

Postdoctoral Fellows Poster Awards

• Health Category - Dr. Neha Dewan, Department of Health Sciences (supervisor, Dr. Vicki Kristman).
• Natural Sciences and Engineering - Dr. Samira Gharehkhani, Department of Chemical Engineering (supervisor, Dr. Pedram Fatehi).

Indigenous Partnership Research Award

• Dr. Frederico Oliveira, Department of Anthropology, and Clifford Bull, Chief, Lac Seul First Nation for their collaborative project, “A Tridimensional Approach to First Nations' Land Use and Occupancy in Northwestern Ontario: an Applied and Culturally Relevant Pilot Study.”

• The second winner is Dr. Ruth Beatty, Department of Education, Lakehead Orillia, and Christina Ruddy, First Nations partner, for their project, “Connecting Anishinaabe and Western Mathematical Ways of Knowing.”

Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Funding Announcement

• Dr. Andrew Dean brought congratulatory remarks on behalf of the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Dr. Helena Jaczek, to Dr. Holly Prince, Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller, team members and partners for their First Nations palliative care training program.

Innovation Awards

    Student Innovation Award Winner

• Ayyappa Kumar Sista Kameshwar, PhD student, Department of Biology

     Faculty Innovation Award

• Dr. Pedram Fatehi, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemicals and Processes, Department of Chemical Engineering
  

Building Research Capacity Award

• Dr. Han Chen, Faculty of Natural Resources Management

Canada Research Chair (CRC) Award

• Dr. Max Haiven as Lakehead University’s Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice
  

Senate Research Committee Awards

       Contribution to Research Award

• Dr. Sudip Rakshit, Biorefining Institute, Chemical Engineering – NSERC Category
• Dr. Cheryl Lousley, English Department – SSHRC Category
• Dr. Rebecca Schiff, Health Sciences – CIHR Category

      Distinguished Researcher Award

• Dr. Pamela Wakewich, the Departments of Sociology and Women’s Studies, and former Director of Lakehead’s Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research.

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Media: For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media Relations Officer, at (807) 343-8177, or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

From left to right, Dr. Batia Stolar, Lakehead’s Associate Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies; Dr. Chander Shahi, Dean of Graduate Studies; Dr. Roxanne Deslauriers, Scientific Director at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute; Dr. Alla Reznik, professor of Physics at Lakehead University and scientist with the Regional Health Research Institute; and Christine Macdonald, business development director with Mitacs. 

March 7, 2018 – Thunder Bay, ON

Researchers at Lakehead University and the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute will lead graduate students to develop and commercialize the next generation of medical imaging detectors that will improve patient outcomes, thanks to a new partnership with Mitacs.

Mitacs, a national, not-for-profit research and training organization, is providing $400,000 grant to fund the two-year project, which includes internships at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute for seven Lakehead University PhD students in Chemistry and Materials Science, and Biotechnology, and one intern from Ryerson University’s Biomedical Physics PhD program.

The medical imaging detectors could be used for many clinical procedures, including anatomical and functional diagnostic imaging as well as image-guided radiotherapy.

Dr. Alla Reznik, a Physics professor at Lakehead University, scientist at the Health Research Institute, and Canada Research Chair in Physics of Molecular Imaging, will lead the project with assistance from Dr. Mitchell Albert, a Lakehead and Health Research Institute researcher, Dr. Apichart Linhananta, Lakehead Physics professor, and Dr. Ananth Ravi, assistant professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto. They are aiming to begin work on the project this month.

“This will be an amazing opportunity for our students to explore their potential while creating new medical imaging detectors that will provide higher quality images to help offer better outcomes for patients,” Dr. Reznik said. “I’m excited to begin working with our students on this important project.”

“The Hospital, along with the Health Research Institute as its research arm, is an academic health sciences centre,” said Dr. Abraham (Rami) Rudnick, VP Research at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, and Chief Scientist at the Health Research Institute. “This generous grant helps our scientists to provide opportunities for their students to grow and it strengthens our commitment to nurturing the next generation of health care providers and advancing patient-centred health research in Northwestern Ontario.”

 “Our partnership with Professor Reznik and the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute exemplifies the shared commitment Mitacs and Lakehead University have in supporting Ontario’s next generation of researchers,” said Mitacs CEO and scientific director Alejandro Adem. “This collaboration will provide work-integrated learning opportunities for grad students and, at the same time, advance innovation in our health care sector.”

Dr. Andrew P. Dean, Lakehead’s Vice-President, Research and Innovation, said this will be an excellent opportunity for graduate students.

 “At Lakehead University we are proud to offer students an exceptional research experience working with top quality faculty. This Mitacs partnership will help our graduate students to advance medical imaging technologies and improve the outcome for patients.” 

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Media: For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media Relations Officer, at (807) 343-8177, or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

March 5, 2018 – Thunder Bay, ON

The Lakehead University Native Student Association (LUNSA) is excited to be hosting their 30^th annual Powwow at the CJ Sanders Fieldhouse, March 9-11.

The annual powwow is LUNSA’s signature event that showcases tremendous talent and entertainment, free of charge, while reinforcing traditional aspects of Aboriginal culture such as drumming, dancing, singing, and giving thanks. 

LUNSA is honoured to have the Whitefish Bay Singers as the Host Drum and Song Warrior as the co-host drum. Lakehead University students and the Thunder Bay community will gather together in celebration of Aboriginal culture and dance.  

Warm-ups will be held on Friday, March 9 from 6 pm to 10 pm. Grand Entry is scheduled for 12 pm and 6:30 pm on Saturday, March 10 with a Traditional Feast being served at 5 pm and the powwow will wrap up for the day at 10 pm.  Grand Entry is set for noon on Sunday, March 11 with the powwow ending at 5 pm.

LUNSA is a volunteer LUSU club.  Its goals are to promote the spirit of unity among Aboriginal students at Lakehead University through social, cultural, and recreational events in addition to promoting cultural awareness between club members and the greater Lakehead University student population.

Everyone is welcome to attend:

Agenda

Friday, March 9:
Warm-ups – 6 pm - 10 pm

Saturday, March 10:
Grand Entry – 12 pm and 6:30 pm
Traditional Feast – 5 pm

Sunday, March 11:

Grand Entry at 12 pm and Closing Ceremonies until 5 pm

• Master of Ceremonies:  Ron Kanutski (Lake Helen First Nation)
• Arena Director: Todd Genno (Biigtigong Nishnaabeg)
• Spiritual Advisor: Gilbert Smith (Northwest Bay)
• Host Drum:  Whitefish Bay Singers (Whitefish Bay)
• Co-Host Drum: Song Warrior (Zhingwaako Zaaga’igan)

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Media: For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media Relations Officer, at (807) 343-8177, or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

Dr. Andrew P. Dean, Lakehead University’s Vice-President, Research and Innovation, hosted the opening ceremonies on Friday, March 2.

March 2, 2018 – Thunder Bay, ON

The theme of this year’s Research and Innovation Week is Connections. Several public talks will highlight how we make our world a stronger place when we connect our knowledge, our curiosity, and our findings.

With events at Lakehead University, the Intercity Shopping Centre and other Thunder Bay locations from March 2 to 9, R and I Week is an annual showcase of the exceptional research being undertaken at the University.

There will be something of interest for people of all ages. Come meet Lakehead faculty, staff and students at the Intercity Shopping Centre on Saturday, March 3 from 10 am until 6 pm.

Interactive displays will dazzle you with the cutting-edge research and innovation happening at Lakehead University. There will be lots to see and do. Some of the booths will include an interactive driving simulator, drones, a Superior Science activity for kids, the Paleo DNA lab, artifacts from the Anthropology department, and more.

Great prizes are available for visiting the displays. You could win $100 and $50 gift certificates for the Intercity Shopping Centre or a full week at the Superior Science summer camp.

On Saturday night at 7 pm, Dr. Carney Matheson from Anthropology is hosting Ancient Brews Rediscovered and Re-created in the Provincial room at the Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel.

 Attendees will travel back in time by learning about and sampling ancient beer brewed by the Sleeping Giant Brewery using instructions from a book by Dr. Patrick McGovern. He is a chemist with the University of Pennsylvania Museum who will participate in the talk and sign copies of his book.

Tickets are $15 to attend the talk and sample the beer, and they can be purchased at the Anthropology booth at the Intercity mall on Saturday, March 3, at the Sleeping Giant Brewery, and at the Prince Arthur Hotel. This event is offered in partnership by the Sleeping Giant Brewery, the Prince Arthur Hotel, the Institute of Italian Studies, Lakehead University, and the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies.

On Sunday, March 4 from 1 to 3 pm, join faculty from Lakehead University’s Department of English and local community members in a public discussion about what graphic novels can teach us about democracy in the Fireside Reading Room at the Brodie St. Library.

This roundtable discussion will include Drs. Daniel Hannah and Judith Leggatt from the Department of English, Laura Prinselaar from the Thunder Bay Public Library, and graphic artist Christopher Merkley (known as Merk).

The following Social Innovation Forums will be on Monday, March 5 at Lakehead University: Agrobiodiversity to Sustain Community Food Systems, 9 to 11 am in ATAC 5036; Who’s in Charge Here? Community-Based Research and Social Innovation, 12 to 2 pm in the Faculty Lounge; Strategies for Fostering Social Innovation in Northwestern Ontario: A community-University Research Conversation, 2 to 4 pm in the Faculty Lounge.

The final forum, City Limits: Addressing Social Injustice through Community-Based Research, will be held from 6 to 9 pm on Monday, March 5 at the Community Auditorium. Dr. Pauline Sameshima, Canada Research Chair in Arts Integrated Research Studies, will facilitate that discussion. Everyone is welcome to attend all of the forums.

Lakehead’s Aboriginal Initiatives Office will host a panel discussion called Strengthening Partnerships with Northern Aboriginal Institutes, including Rosie Mosquito, the Executive Director from Oshki-Pimache-O-Win: The Wenjack Institute; Brent Tookenay, CEO of Seven Generations Education Institute; and Murray Waboose, Education Director of Anishinabek Nation.

Lakehead’s Denise Baxter will moderate the discussion on Tuesday, March 6 at 11:30 am in the Faculty Lounge. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Northern Ignite will be held on Tuesday, March 6 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm in the Faculty Lounge. This photo-only presentation will allow researchers to describe their passion and process during their research journey. This event is open to community members and includes a dinner. Please register by visiting lakeheadu.ca/ri.

 The evening of Wednesday, March 7 will feature FINTech: Connecting Innovations with the New Frontiers of Commerce from 6 to 9 pm in the third floor auditorium at PACI (401 Red River Rd.). Register before Friday, March 2 by visiting lakeheadu.ca/ri.

The Power of gene silencing to fight lethal viral infections and cancer will also be held on Wednesday, March 7 from 7:30 to 8:30 pm in UC 1017, featuring a talk by Dr. Jyoti Chattopadhyaya, University of Uppsala, Sweden, a Scientist in RNAi for drug treatment of viral diseases.

The International Women’s Day Entrepreneur Panel will celebrate faculty and student start-ups from Confederation College and Lakehead University. Through the Partnerships in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) program, female faculty and students who have ventured into the world of entrepreneurship will share their accomplishments and discuss challenges along the journey to running their own business. This discussion will be on Thursday, March 8 from 8:30 to 10 am in the Faculty Lounge. Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Registration is not required unless mentioned above. Please visit lakeheadu.ca/ri for information about all of the events happening this week.

Participants included, from left to right, Crystal DePeuter from the Honourable Patty Hajdu's Constituency Office; Anne Klymenko, Director, Research Services, Elder Isabelle Mercier; Dr. Andrew P. Dean, Vice-President, Research and Innovation; Sheldon Levy, CEO of Next Canada, and Thunder Bay Councillor Paul Pugh as Acting Mayor. Also in attendance was Dr. David Barnett, Provost and Vice-President (Academic). 

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Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2018 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities, as well as first in Total Research Dollars, second for Citations, and third for Scholarships and Bursaries. In 2017, Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the third consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.